I am amazed at how fixated the Colorado news media are on one four-letter word in the Rocky Mountain Collegian newspaper. When I was in college in the late 1970s, this never would have been a story that anyone would have reported. The Denver Post and other “news” media have wasted so much space and time on this non-story that I have to wonder what stories of actual importance are being deliberately ignored so that you can devote so much energy to something so meaningless. Read more…

Vincent Carroll is The Denver Post's editorial page editor. He has been writing commentary on politics and public policy in Colorado since 1982 and was originally with the Rocky Mountain News, where he was also editor of the editorial pages until that newspaper gave up the ghost in 2009.

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